If you're wondering why the Winter Holiday Feast event ended early in ChefVille, with five days left before Christmas, today's in-game update is your answer. Over the next 12 days, players will have a chance to cook six new holiday-inspired dishes and earn a Spice Stand at the end. This Spice Stand will help players earn more spices and mastery stars, but everything needs to be "unlocked" first. This event comes with a single quest, and we'll run through the required tasks as best as we can.

Seasoning's Greetings!
• Buy and Place the Holiday Spice Oven
• Cook a Dish on the Holiday Spice Oven
• Unlock All Recipes in the Holiday Spice Oven

The Holiday Spice Oven can be purchased from the store for 1,000 coins. It doesn't require any building, but all six dishes within it are locked. You'll need to unlock each one between now and Dec. 31, with one dish available every two days, starting on Dec. 23.

To be specific, this first dish is already available, the "Holiday Spiced Chicken." It requires six Cloves and six Allspice to unlock. The Cloves are earned via a general news post on your wall, while the Allspice is earned through specific requests sent to your friends. Once you've collected these items, the Holiday Spiced Chicken will be available to cook within the Holiday Spice Oven using one Clove, one Allspice and one Chicken. The dish takes 10 minutes to cook, but again, you can only cook it once you've unlocked it.

More dishes will unlock on Dec. 23, 25, 27, 29, and 31, and if you can unlock all six dishes before the event ends in 12 days, you'll receive the Spice Stand for your restaurant. A lot of this event is still up in the air, but we'll update this space as we learn more about how to unlock the next five dishes. The suspense builds.